| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 423 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
The irreducible historicality of the concept of art -- Artworks as artifacts -- Emotion in response to art -- Elster on artistic creativity -- Sound, gesture, space, and the expression of emotion in music -- Musical expressiveness as hearability-as-expression -- Nonexistent artforms and the case of visual music -- Music as narrative and music as drama -- Film music and narrative agency -- Evaluating music -- Musical thinking -- Musical chills -- Wollheim on pictorial representation -- What is erotic art? -- Erotic art and pornographic pictures -- Two notions of interpretation -- Who's afraid of a paraphrase? -- Hypothetical intentionalism : statement, objections, and replies -- Aesthetic properties, evaluative force, anddifferences of sensibility -- What are aesthetic properties? -- Schopenhauer's aesthetics -- Hume's Standard of taste : the real problem -- The concept of humor -- Intrinsic value and the notion of a life. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
'Contemplating Art' is a compendium of writings by one of the leading figures in aesthetics, Jerrold Levinson. The 24 essays range over issues in general aesthetics and those relating to specific arts - in particular music, film, and literature. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Aesthetics.
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Aesthetics. |
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Art -- Philosophy.
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Art -- Philosophy. |
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Arts.
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Arts. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Levinson, Jerrold. Contemplating art. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006 (DLC) 2006016276 |
| ISBN |
9780191525636 (electronic book) |
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0191525634 (electronic book) |
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0199206171 (paperback) |
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9780199206179 (paperback) |
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019920618X (hardback) |
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9780199206186 (hardback) |
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